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Lingering respiratory viruses set the stage for chronic lung disease, mouse study shows

Two grants totaling $30 million a year for three years support efforts to design vaccines, drugs for understudied virus families

Dr. Tamara Doering and Dr. Liza Loza have identified a novel enzyme involved in building the cell wall of Cryptococcus neoformans, a fungus that causes lung infections and potentially deadly cases of meningitis, primarily in people with AIDS.

Christina L. Stallings, PhD, acts as an outstanding mentor and sponsor for a total of 46 trainees in her own laboratory — including those currently in training. This diverse group of trainees includes undergraduates, post-baccalaureates, PhD, MD/PhD, postdoctoral fellows and senior scientists.

On April 25, 2024, the Office of Technology Management hosted the seventh annual Celebration of Inventors, an event to honor and recognize Washington University inventors, researchers and faculty entrepreneurs.  Honorees included Molecular Microbiology’s Scott Hultgren and Jerome Pinkner.

Siyuan Ding, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Michelson Prize: Next Generation Grant from the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project.

New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.

Emerging evidence suggests that pathogens can pair up to work together against immune system defences. Virologists are beginning to ask questions about which pathogens tend to infect cells at the same time, and whether these affect clinical outcomes. “What co-infections are more common or more impactful in the clinic?” says López. Clinical samples give infectious-disease […]

Siyuan Ding, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2023 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award from the American Society of Virology.